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Cake day: July 20th, 2023

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  • I’ve never moved the goalposts. I’ve held the entire time that social media is a platform for sharing the ongoings of your life with friends or public via a single post.

    By your definition, writing your phone number on a bathroom stall is social media. By your definition, literally every single account based service on the Internet is social media.

    A term should mean something. It shouldn’t just be a fancy team for “oh, you know, everything ever”



  • I guess “I’ve never used it” is being deliberately obtuse, but if “group chats, friend lists, and conversations” are all it takes to be social media, then texting is a social media account. If “video chat” is social media, then FaceTime is a social media account.

    I don’t know if you’re being deliberately obtuse but obviously these are not social media like Facebook, Myspace, or even YouTube. They’re just chat. And that’s not social media by any contemporary definition.